Quotes about Creation

When we become psychologically dependent upon crisis, it actually becomes our life motivator, and if we don't have a present crisis, we'll learn to create one.

You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay. Isaiah 29:16

God created male and female with an intricate balance of sameness and distinction, an impressive concoction of common part and counterpart. Each image bearers. Each of equal worth. Each necessary for a future. Each necessary for survival.

Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck, the closest-to-sublime simulacra of those qualities that he or she can.

He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.

We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet, but which will be, through us.

Let the unconscious do its work. Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Remember, the part of us that we imagine needs healing is not the part we create from; that part is far deeper and stronger. The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted; soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.